No Sacred Cows
Scepticism served medium rare
Category: Genealogy
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I moved from Leigh-on-Sea to Harrogate in about 1969. Not long before that, when I was ten or eleven, my parents had organised a solo trip to London for me, including an overnight stay with a relative, for reasons I can no longer remember. Having never travelled alone anywhere before, except a five minute stroll…
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Family trees are strange things. They offer the illusion of order, a tidy branchwork of names and dates. But beneath the surface, they’re tangled with myth, omission, and the mess of human behaviour. Mine is no different. It begins in Scotland, detours through Jamaica, dips its toes in the abolitionist movement, and ends up –…
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Scientist, RAF officer, NHS leader and Lord-Lieutenant of West Sussex Dame Susan Elizabeth Pyper, née Harrison, was born in December 1951, the elder daughter of Ronald Harrison and Joan Harrison, née Wedderburn. Joan was my mother’s cousin, making Susan a member of my own Wedderburn generation of cousins. Her younger sister was Jenny. Ronald Harrison…
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# Postscript: Bill Wedderburn, Robert and the return to Inveresk There is a final part of Bill Wedderburn’s story that deserves to stand separately from the account of his remarkable legal and political career. When I met Bill at the House of Lords in 2001, he already knew of Robert Wedderburn as a historical figure.…
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